Some Reflections on Jean Barman’s French Canadians, Furs and Indigenous Women
As a coda to Jean Barman’s book, Bruce McIntyre Watson proposes extending her wider definitional embrace of French Canadians to include the early Scots in Canada, particularly those who descended from the eighteenth-century Jacobites who, in Scotland, had allied themselves with the French to provide...
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fterudit:oai:erudit.org:1040570ar 2023-05-15T16:16:52+02:00 Some Reflections on Jean Barman’s French Canadians, Furs and Indigenous Women Watson, Bruce McIntyre 2016 http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1040570ar https://doi.org/10.7202/1040570ar en eng The Canadian Historical Association / La Société historique du Canada Érudit Journal of the Canadian Historical Association vol. 27 no. 2 (2016) All Rights Reserved © The Canadian Historical Association / La Société historique du Canada, 2016 text 2016 fterudit https://doi.org/10.7202/1040570ar 2017-07-29T23:06:01Z As a coda to Jean Barman’s book, Bruce McIntyre Watson proposes extending her wider definitional embrace of French Canadians to include the early Scots in Canada, particularly those who descended from the eighteenth-century Jacobites who, in Scotland, had allied themselves with the French to provide a bulwark against English dominance. He also advances Jean’s reasons for marginalization and subsequent amnesia of the early French-Canadian fact west of the Rockies squarely on literacy or lack thereof. Although memory of the French-Canadian fact was retained to some degree by First Nations’ oral tradition, he proposes that the early French Canadian/canadien’s failure to present a written record to establish a founding narrative became, for the wider community, an agent of amnesia rather than an instrument of memory. En guise de coda à l’ouvrage de Jean Barman, Bruce McIntyre Watson propose d’élargir la définition qu’elle donne des Canadiens français pour y inclure les premiers Écossais en sol canadien, particulièrement les descendants des Jacobites du XVIIIe siècle qui, en Écosse, s’étaient alliés aux Français pour résister à la domination anglaise. Il avance également que les facteurs expliquant la marginalisation de la présence française à l’ouest des Rocheuses – et de la subséquente amnésie à son endroit – se rattachent carrément à littéracie ou, plutôt, à son absence. Bien que la mémoire du fait français fut jusqu’à un certain point conservée dans les traditions orales des Premières Nations, il maintient que l’analphabétisme des premiers Canadiens français, et leur incapacité à rédiger un récit historique fondateur pour l’ensemble de leur communauté, est le véritable agent d’amnésie. Text First Nations Premières Nations Érudit.org (Université Montréal) Barman ENVELOPE(8.850,8.850,63.633,63.633) Bulwark ENVELOPE(163.550,163.550,-78.283,-78.283) Canada McIntyre ENVELOPE(-153.000,-153.000,-87.283,-87.283) Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 27 2 153 157 |
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As a coda to Jean Barman’s book, Bruce McIntyre Watson proposes extending her wider definitional embrace of French Canadians to include the early Scots in Canada, particularly those who descended from the eighteenth-century Jacobites who, in Scotland, had allied themselves with the French to provide a bulwark against English dominance. He also advances Jean’s reasons for marginalization and subsequent amnesia of the early French-Canadian fact west of the Rockies squarely on literacy or lack thereof. Although memory of the French-Canadian fact was retained to some degree by First Nations’ oral tradition, he proposes that the early French Canadian/canadien’s failure to present a written record to establish a founding narrative became, for the wider community, an agent of amnesia rather than an instrument of memory. En guise de coda à l’ouvrage de Jean Barman, Bruce McIntyre Watson propose d’élargir la définition qu’elle donne des Canadiens français pour y inclure les premiers Écossais en sol canadien, particulièrement les descendants des Jacobites du XVIIIe siècle qui, en Écosse, s’étaient alliés aux Français pour résister à la domination anglaise. Il avance également que les facteurs expliquant la marginalisation de la présence française à l’ouest des Rocheuses – et de la subséquente amnésie à son endroit – se rattachent carrément à littéracie ou, plutôt, à son absence. Bien que la mémoire du fait français fut jusqu’à un certain point conservée dans les traditions orales des Premières Nations, il maintient que l’analphabétisme des premiers Canadiens français, et leur incapacité à rédiger un récit historique fondateur pour l’ensemble de leur communauté, est le véritable agent d’amnésie. |
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